Earlier this week I had commented that neither the Firefox 3 Status or Gecko 1.9 or even the Weekly Update meetings had any indication as to a release date for the Gran Paradiso Alpha 3 milestone. Well, Mozilla has released the Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 Alpha 3 milestone earlier today. A couple of new features (see complete release notes) for this milestone: Animated PNG (APNG) images are now supported. From what I have read Animated PNG are suppose to be a lot better quality and more superior as the color pallet is not restricted to the 256 colors compared to animated…

Apparently late last night Mozilla launched the new Add-Ons Manager (AOM) site or at least that is what Ryan at CyberNet News is saying. For reasons unknown at this time it seems Mozilla has reverted back to the original AOM. Of course there are several theories as to why this may have happened from missing add-ons, broken links and issues with the sandbox (the place where unapproved extensions are kept). So it looks like we will have to wait a little longer for the new and (some what) improved AOM site. Source: CyberNet News

Not much of a surprise here, today’s Gecko 1.9 meeting didn’t shed any light on the Alpha 3 release date. For the curious and the Fx Geeks, today’s Meeting Notes. However, I did find something of interest in regards to the future Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 via Mozilla Links. Animated PNGs (or APNG) will be supported in Fx 3! While this has landed on the trunk, it still sounds like it needs some more work.

The latest security updates for Firefox have been released today. Fx 1.5.0.11 and 2.0.0.3 are now available for download. Firefox 1.5.0.11 Release Notes Download Firefox 2.0.0.3 Release Notes Download

Well, today’s Fx 3 Status Meeting didn’t provide any new information for the upcoming Fx 3 Alpha 3 release. The only thing of interest is the development for support of “off-line apps”. May be there will be some news in tomorrow’s Gecko 1.9 Status meeting. For those who are interested, here are today’s meeting notes.

Thought I should let y’all know about the status of The Major Update, you know that wonderful (at least ideally it is) feature which is suppose to allow users to go from Fx 1.5.0.X to 2.0.0.X as an update. Well, I have no idea what is going on with this. Discussion on this feature seems to have disappeared from the Weekly Update meetings a couple weeks ago. When I was looking around on the mozillaZine forums I came across this humorous (but sadly true) post from the the-edmeister in the Update to v 2.0.0.2 does not work thread. This was…

A couple weeks ago during the Fx 3 2007/03/06 Update, it was mentioned that Fx 3.0a3/Gecko 1.9a3 was being targeted for March 20th. Doesn’t look like that is going to happen. Actually, the 20th is really and odd date when you consider it falls on a Tuesday this month and that is the day Mozilla holds the Fx 3 status meetings. Further reviewing last weeks Fx 3 Status and the Gecko 1.9a3 Meeting notes I saw no mention of a release date. The only thing I did see was a couple patches, one of those was for the memory leak…

Note: Fx 1.5.0.11/2.0.0.3 are security updates which include fixes for six major issues including the Password Manger Vulnerability bug.  As mentioned earlier today in the Weekly Update 2007-03-19 post, Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 RC’s were pushed out to users on the “Beta” (update) channel last week. Everything has gone well with these release thus far so Mozilla plans on making the final releases on Tuesday (03/20). They plan to go live with Fx 1.5.0.11 & 2.0.0.3 around 4:00 PM Pacific (7:00 PM Eastern) which means this is when getfirefox.com will be updated to show the most recent version as the…